Innovation

Oil Field

Going to Extremes

Elementis Specialties is a leading global supplier of innovative rheological additives and related products to the oil field services industry. Elementis provides a range of organically modified smectite clays, high purity non-modified specialty clays and organic polymers which serve primarily as rheological additives to thicken and suspend solids and other polymers. These products are recognized, worldwide, under the BENTONE® and THIXATROL® trademarks, a core element of the oil field chemicals business since 1949.

Patented technology and unique proprietary materials enable our customers to address the challenges of high temperature and deep-water drilling and to keep pace with new transformational shale drilling and stimulation opportunities.